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Post by jswallow on Sept 21, 2011 20:44:27 GMT
No guys, I mean on the platforms themselves, the station name on a turquoise roundel! It's always struck me as odd that they've only ever had those turquoise boards, when they had them on LO they were marked "Temporary Sign" - and then replaced with roundels in due course. It's not in the TfL branding standards document, so no, there are no plans to use roundels on platforms with the station name inside them.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 13, 2011 19:15:51 GMT
People were on it this evening.
O/T ... Why the weird smiley about Boots, Deep Level? The times are shown for Boots because it's a dispensing chemist, so has different opening hours for prescriptions etc. You never know when you're going to need a late-opening chemist.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 5, 2011 14:21:09 GMT
I don't like the new white disabled stickers, possibly be confused with the normal interchange symbol with people who have bad eyesight. I can't see why as a company you'd advertise the fact that the disabled can get from platform to street, but not train to street? But I am very ill informed about these things. They do advertise both options. There's just no opportunities to do step free from train to street on the Picacadilly line, only from the platform to street, hence all the symbols being white ones.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 5, 2011 8:24:50 GMT
Because Earls Court isn't currently step free while the lifts are being worked on, and when it becomes so the sticker can be removed to reveal the wheelchair symbol.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 5, 2011 8:15:03 GMT
Your link worked for me too. :-)
Boston nicked the idea from Chicago who run seatless trains on the El.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 4, 2011 15:45:52 GMT
Sheffield to Attercliffe (now closed) was the one that my dad (lifelong booking office/railway back office) said that people used to buy all the time to gain the AST railcard.
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Post by jswallow on Sept 1, 2011 17:36:24 GMT
Not quite Fins Park, protected manual from signal VSS.1176 to Tot Hale. New signalling doing odd things, had a signal yesterday clear but train didn't pick up LMA for over two minutes!! LMA? Not an acronym I'm familiar with, what's it stand for please?
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Post by jswallow on Aug 31, 2011 13:56:03 GMT
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Post by jswallow on Aug 30, 2011 8:44:56 GMT
By whom?
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Post by jswallow on Aug 29, 2011 13:18:34 GMT
The one I saw this morning at Leyton had white wheelchair blobs as well as blue wheelchair blobs. Kings X had both for example. Unfortunately I was rushing for a train so didn't have time to see what the difference was. maritimesandwich, you could always start your own thread about the map, you don't need to wait for someone else to do it.
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Post by jswallow on Aug 26, 2011 12:06:36 GMT
1850s? As the quote refers to the drainage system, it's not unreasonable to assume 1850's is correct.
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Post by jswallow on Aug 26, 2011 10:11:40 GMT
... and that link says "in preparation for the opening", not that it is opening (not intended as a dig at londonguy).
If it opens on Monday I'll be extremely surprised.
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Post by jswallow on Jul 23, 2011 23:12:21 GMT
What's the point of operating a shuttle from Finchley Road to Baker Street? Doesn't the Jubilee line do exactly the same thing, apart from calling at a couple of intermediate stations along the way?
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Post by jswallow on Jul 11, 2011 21:52:06 GMT
I often find myself on Alexandra Palace Station waiting for FCC local services. On several occasions I've seen a First Hull train pass by. A powerful diesel locomotive at each end, with just TWO carriages between the two locomotives, and on one occasion, three carriages. Surely passengers travelling from London or Peterborough to Hull could take an existing East Coast service to Doncaster and pick up a diesel-powered connection there. Firstly, as others have pointed out, it's a 5 coach DMU set. Secondly, for the customer, being able to make a journey without having to change is a potential big draw and unique selling point. Why should people have to change if an operator is prepared to provide a service that East Coast decided it couldn't be bothered with?
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Post by jswallow on Jul 10, 2011 12:52:02 GMT
Doesn't even say that either. All Satints.
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Post by jswallow on Mar 16, 2011 18:18:32 GMT
Which are closed? There's your clues ...
Blackfriars reopens late in 2011. Tottenham Court Road is only closed on the Northern for a few months, so could be the other one.
Might be others, but can't think of them off the top of my head right now.
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Post by jswallow on Feb 12, 2011 10:52:56 GMT
I believe one or two trains decided to call it a day But once the train was empty, it proceeded to Victoria at normal speed... Surely if it had conked out it wouldn't be abled to move on it's own? A total failure to move isn't the only reason a train would be taken out of service. What about a problem with the door circuit for example? I've be tipped off a train before where it's had problems at every station between closing the doors and setting off. It would be getting later and later at every station and delaying the trains behind and throwing the timetable out of kilter. In the end, you take the train out of service to minimise delays. Once you've tipped out, you can get the train out of the way.
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Post by jswallow on Feb 11, 2011 10:23:58 GMT
Smashing, thanks for those! Our company is a sod for acronyms too!
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Post by jswallow on Feb 11, 2011 8:14:37 GMT
Thanks for these pictures. Looks interesting up there, especially the curved gateline. There's a few acronyms I don't know though.
ESUB, WAG, GLAP
Please could someone enlighten me?
(Edit: sorry remembered one WAG = Wise Aisle Gate)
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Post by jswallow on Feb 6, 2011 11:01:24 GMT
Why is the sole destination of this new service ever thought to be Stratford International? It's going to be useful along the rest of the route between Stratford Regional and Canning Town as it'll be a suitable alternative to the 276 bus route, which is rammed to bursting point for much of the day. Getting some of the passengers off the 276 onto the DLR will be good. It'll also take pressure off other services such as the 262, the 473 to City Airport and so on.
And as someone who lives in the area who can afford to both take daybreaks to the continent and shop at Westfield I find your second comment inaccurate. The area around Stratford, Leyton, Walthamstow, Hackney etc is also popular with professionals who can easily get to work and leisure from there.
I maintain people will be surprised once the extension opens.
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Post by jswallow on Feb 2, 2011 20:33:01 GMT
Seeing as the entire line was suspended as a result, chaotic sounds a pretty good definition to me - even if it were only for a short time.
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Post by jswallow on Jan 26, 2011 17:36:32 GMT
Blooming heck, have they turned them all white already? That seemed quick ...
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Post by jswallow on Jan 14, 2011 9:41:04 GMT
I know i cant believe its taken LO over 3 years to replace the signs, its bad that the ELL Southern stations havent been completed and the lines been open about 8-9 months now. Why does it matter? (A genuine question). A sign is a sign, and the station name hasn't changed.
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Post by jswallow on Jan 14, 2011 9:37:22 GMT
No I think the branch to Charing Cross closed the day the extension opened. You remember correctly. And as an aside (and it's not a dig at anybody) isn't it weird how people's memory is already becoming hazy about things that happened in relatively recent times? There's a few threads like it, here and there. Let's hope the historians have it documented right for posterity.
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Post by jswallow on Dec 30, 2010 9:57:50 GMT
I think you've got it in one. The Underground is not a heritage museum, despite what many people seem to want on this forum. It's a means for people to get from A to B, and the majority of the ordinary passengers couldn't really give two hoots what the station canopies look like, what sort of stock they have etc.
As someone who uses the Central Line at the east end of it every day, give me 1992 stock (and yes it's nowhere near perfect), the new signalling system (which by and large behaves itself) and stations how we have them now (my locals Leyton and Leytonstone are perfectly acceptable, and the refurb at Leyton was decently done).
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Post by jswallow on Dec 23, 2010 9:38:04 GMT
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Post by jswallow on Dec 16, 2010 20:18:34 GMT
Another observation. During the early days of running when I first got a ride on an S Stock, they were carrying their Train numbers on the carriage side Matrix displays as part of the scrolling message. All of my above observations didnt do this and I had to get the Train number of the end. Has this been disabled to avoid confusion? Are you sure they don't just show the set number on the leading car's side display? That's what they've done on the Victoria line 2009 stock, so that the train ops can see which train is stood in the platform for relief (for example at Seven Sisters you can't see the front of the train when it's in tunnel), so a train op walking down the platform won't know which train it is.
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Post by jswallow on Dec 16, 2010 16:39:26 GMT
1. You'll still do that (go via downstairs), but it's all inside the paid area (i.e. no barriers are passed) so no touch-in/out needed.
2. That is the burning question. I would have thought some sort of screens would be down in the ticket hall (or I'd like to think that) but whether anything would be provided on the Jubilee platforms is another issue entirely.
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Post by jswallow on Dec 14, 2010 14:14:25 GMT
... because in the older timetables many Hammersmith & City trains started at Whitechapel. If you were standing at a station beyond Whitechapel (e.g. West Ham, Mile End) you'd have waited for a very long time on the off-chance there'd be a Hammersmith & City coming from Barking. This has changed now as H&C runs through to Barking most of the time, and the Whitechapel reversal point moving to West Ham because of Crossrail. It's still fairly good advice for that journey though - get as far as you can, then change.
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Post by jswallow on Dec 2, 2010 16:19:34 GMT
For the latest map, Stratford should read:- "DLR trains to Stratford International, Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal in early 2011" as the "early 2011" applies to all three routes.
Lovely font by the way - Frutiger?
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